---
title: Chroma
---

>[Chroma](https://docs.trychroma.com/getting-started) is a database for building AI applications with embeddings.

## Installation and Setup

<CodeGroup>
```bash pip
pip install langchain-chroma
```

```bash uv
uv add langchain-chroma
```
</CodeGroup>


## VectorStore

There exists a wrapper around Chroma vector databases, allowing you to use it as a vectorstore,
whether for semantic search or example selection.

```python
from langchain_chroma import Chroma
```

For a more detailed walkthrough of the Chroma wrapper, see [this notebook](/oss/integrations/vectorstores/chroma)

## Retriever

See a [usage example](/oss/integrations/retrievers/self_query/chroma_self_query).

```python
from langchain.retrievers import SelfQueryRetriever
```
